HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
County Administration Building
102 East Front Street
Lillington, North Carolina
Regular Meeting
RESULTS OF BOARD MEETING
April 16, 20127:00 p.m.
- Order of Business -
- Call to order – Chairman Timothy B. McNeill
- Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation – Vice Chairman Beatrice B. Hill
3. Consider additions and deletions to the published agenda – Approved as amended.
Chairman McNeill announced that the Zoning Change Request by Brian Allen Sherrer from RA-20M to Commercial Zoning had been withdrawn so there would be no public hearing on the zoning change.
Chairman McNeill requested the addition of three budget amendments to the consent agenda.
- Consent Agenda – All items on the consent agenda were approved
A. Minutes: April 2, 2012 Minutes of Regular Meeting
March 27, 2012 Minutes of Special Session
August 15, 2011 Minutes of Regular Meeting
- Budget Amendments
- Sheriff’s Office requests approval to charge a fee of $5.00 per day on vehicles stored under the new “Run and You’re Done” Law NC G.S. 20-141.5.
- Library Director requests permission to donate withdrawn library materials to be sold at the Friends of the Library book sale April 24-26, 2012.
- Emergency Services requests authorization to submit and receive funds for the Inventory System project through the WakeMed Health and Hospitals CAPRAC (Capital Area Regional Advisory Committee) in the amount of $3,495.
- Information Technologies and the Sheriff’s Office request approval of a Memorandum of Understanding between Johnston County and Harnett County to establish a formal arrangement whereby Johnston County makes available to Harnett County its Backup 911 Center for use by Harnett County during such times as Harnett County may experience failure to its primary 911 emergency call and dispatch center.
- Public Utilities requests approval of an increasing final adjusting change order in the amount of $47,707.44 for the East Central Water Improvements Project. These changes amount to 4.62% of the total contract amount and will be paid from the project contingency.
5. Period of up to 30 minutes for informal comments allowing 3 minutes for each
Presentation
- Mr. Kasdy Dawoud withdrew his request for a zoning change from RA-20R to Commercial Zoning for land he owns on Hwy 401S on McNeill Hobbs Road in Stewart’s Creek which had previously been tabled.
- Mrs. Hattie Davis, owner of Benny’s Mobile Home Park in Fuquay-Varina, said there is a county sewer line nine-tenths of a mile from her park and asked when she would be able to hook on to the sewer line. Mrs. Davis said she has exhausted her financial resources repair her system Mrs. Davis told Commissioner Andrews the mobile home park nearest to him was leaking raw sewer on to his property.
- Charlene Jones of Old Buies Creek Road in Angier told commissioners the new insurance plan they adopted for their employees is really bad. She demanded to know what other companies and plans they had looked at.
6. Public Hearing: Zoning Change Request, Owner of Record/Applicant: Brian Allen Sherrer; From RA-20M to Commercial Zoning, .83 +/- acres, Hwy 210 S, Anderson Creek Township - Withdrawn
7. Public Hearing: Proposed UDO Text Amendments, Applicant: Harnett County Planning Services; Unified Development Ordinance: Article VI; VII, Sections 10.0 & 2.0 (Streets)
Attachment B - Planning Board recommendation were approved.
- Mr. Ron Huff spoke in support of the amendment
8. Public Hearing: Proposed Consolidation of the Bunnlevel Fire Protection Service District and the Summerville Fire Protection District. Consider adoption of resolution consolidating the districts as requested. - Approved
- Mr. Phillip Moses, 1141 Nutgrass Road, stated his opposition as he wanted his fire department “to stay put”. Staff explained that the two groups were merging and pooling resources but would maintain and operate both locations.
- Mr. Frankie Lewis of Lillington spoke in support of this merger.
- Mr. Leo McDonald, Chairman of Summerville Fire and Rescue, reiterated personnel would remain at both locations.
- Mr. Holt Felmet spoke in favor of the merger; noting his role was to assist in the merging of the two corporations.
9. County Manager’s report – Scott T. Sauer, County Manager
· Planning Services Report March 2012
· March Landfill Billing
· March Veterans Affairs Activities Report
Mr. Sauer distributed handouts of 1) the most recent sales tax distribution through January 2012 and 2) the legal expenditures for Harnett County for all funds, departments and projects.
It was the consensus of the board to hold an Airport Summit on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at 7:00 pm.
The special session scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, 2012 was cancelled.
Mr. Sauer announced that the Tax Department had negotiated an agreement with the Town of Lillington for the collection of taxes.
10. Closed session
Commissioner Burgin moved that the Board go in to closed session to discuss certain personnel matters. This motion is made pursuant to N.C. General Statute Section 143-318.11(a)(6).
11. New Business
Commissioner Burgin requested the Harnett County Board of Commissioners and Board of Education meet with Mr. Paul Romine to talk about charter schools in Harnett County.
Commissioner Burgin moved to give S.A.F.E. $15,000. The motion failed 3 to 2.
Commissioner Burgin questioned if staff had signed the BCBS PFI document.
Commissioner Burgin moved, with the exception of the Sheriff’s office, that all county vehicles be parked unless in use by on-call staff. Chairman McNeill offered an amendment to the motion to allow the county manager and department heads to develop an overall plan for energy conservation prior to budget adoption. The amendment and amended motion passed unanimously.
Commissioner Burgin asked staff to talk to representatives of First Choice to find why they didn’t use local workers to construct the new First Choice Building in Lillington.
Commissioner Andrews raised concern regarding NC DOT’s plans to spend $800,000 to close one of the two railroad crossing in Kipling.
12. Adjourn – 8:46 pm